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"I just turned 41 and I still don’t know what the hell I’m doing." It's Lzzy Hale's birthday, but Halestorm's riotous Aftershock set is a present for all

Halestorm confirm their status as one of modern rock's most reliably enjoyable live bands

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"This isn’t just a return; it’s a resurrection." Slayer just showed Aftershock festival why they're still the undisputed kings of thrash metal with a devastating headline set for the ages

Still got it? Slayer never lost it. What a show!

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Supercharged shows that The Offspring are still smashing it in their 40th year. How many bands can say the same?

The Offspring hit a late-career peak with fired-up 11th album Supercharged

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“Viruses are cool. They’re cool because they’re so gnarly. It’s Darth Vader stuff.” The Offspring's Dexter Holland talks about viruses like other people talk about their favourite band or football team, and he actually makes them sound pretty punk

Doctor Bryan Keith 'Dexter' Holland, Ph.D., gets very excited talking about viruses, and his passion is kinda contagious

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Disturbed announce The Sickness 25th anniversary tour, playing the nu metal classic in full every night

Three Days Grace, Daughtry, Sevendust and Nothing More will join the arena-metal giants as they play across North America next year

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David Gilmour features in Body Count's new video for Comfortably Numb

Ice-Ts metal band Body Count will release their new album Merciless in November

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Dream Theater share first new music since Mike Portnoy's return with nine-minute plus Night Terror

Parasomnia, Dream Theater's first new album with Mike Portnoy for 16 years, will be released in February

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“The riffs are insane in that band!” Arch Enemy name their five most surprising influences, from Trouble to Scorpions

How have Scorpions, Trouble and an obscure power metal band shaped one of melodeath’s biggest names? Michael Amott and Daniel Erlandsson explain.

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"Outliving my little brother, this just wasn't the plan. As the older brother, I was supposed to die first. Same as always, Ed, butting in line": Listen to Alex Van Halen's emotional tribute for Eddie Van Halen from his new audiobook, Brothers

Alex Van Halen makes a beautiful tribute to the late Eddie Van Halen in his new audiobook, Brothers, which is also set to feature a previously unreleased song composed by the pair

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Los Angeles District Attorney investigating new leads and evidence regarding Marilyn Manson sexual misconduct allegations

“New evidence has emerged within the last few weeks,” says D.A. George Gascón

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"There’s always going to be resistance from other sides when a big movement happens." Poppy makes her debut on the cover of Metal Hammer in a world exclusive interview

Genre-splicing star Poppy appears on Metal Hammer's cover for the first time ahead of new album Negative Spaces

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"These shows are very special to me, because they’re rare." Why Daron Malakian has resurrected Scars On Broadway

After their first show in five years, System Of A Down's Daron Malakian admits Scars On Broadway already have their third album ready and waiting

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"Unquestionably the most extreme entity that Shavo has put his name to". System Of A Down bassist ditches quirky nu metal for brutal, blistering deathcore with Seven Hours After Violet

Almost 20 years since his last ful-length album, Shavo Odadjian is roaring back with his heaviest band to date

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“The listening experience is unparalleled, sacrificing not only sonic quality, but also convenience, and occasionally entire verses.” Green Day releasing each track on Dookie on obscure and obsolete formats is the most brilliantly pointless, genius idea

Want to own a single track from Green Day's Dookie on a toothbrush, mini disc, wax cylinder, teddy bear or Fisher Price record? Of course you do, but you have to earn it

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“Hey Gene! Just wanna remind you that this is a dancing show, NOT a beauty contest”: Kiss’s Gene Simmons guest-judged on Dancing With The Stars and proved as popular as you’d expect

Simmons has been criticised for offering shallow critiques and making “weird and gross comments”

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Death metal up-and-comers Neckbreakker (formerly Nakkeknaekker) announce debut album Within The Viscera

Get your neck broken by Neckbreakker when they release their first album on December 6

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"I remember him throwing his guitar up into the lighting rig, rubbing it against the speaker cabinets and playing it with his ass": Lars Ulrich on the first band to truly blow his mind

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich recalls being nine years old and getting to watch the band that were "loudest and coolest thing" he'd ever seen

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Riot Fest deny dead festival attendee's injuries occurred during Slayer comeback show

Stephen Shult, 58, died after sustaining injuries at Riot Fest on September 22. His friends and the festival have offered disputing accounts of what happened.

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Watch Motley Crue get dumped out the back of a garbage truck on the Sunset Strip as they arrive for intimate Troubadour show

Motley Crue make a not-so-grand entrance for the first of their Hollywood Takeover shows as they roll out of the back of a trash-filled garbage truck

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10 excellent upcoming bands to catch at Aftershock Festival 2024

This year's Aftershock is stacked with massive names, but there are some outstanding young bands on the bill that deserve your attention

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“I was just looking at it as a chance to go play Master Of Puppets for an afternoon”: Jane’s Addiction bassist Eric Avery reveals what shocked him about 2003 Metallica audition

Avery auditioned to replace Jason Newsted in Metallica, but the role ultimately went to Robert Trujillo

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“Rick Rubin didn’t like it at all!” Watch Serj Tankian eat his first banana terracotta pie – and explain why he wrote a System Of A Down song about it

19 years after first singing about banana terracotta pie on Vicinity Of Obscenity, System Of A Down singer Serj Tankian has tried one

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Watch Arch Enemy debut new song Liars & Thieves live during UK tour

The track is taken from the melodeath stars’ impending album Blood Dynasty

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"A veritable Traveling Wilburys of Nordic melodeath." Musicians from Dark Tranquillity, Amorphis, Sentenced, Omnium Gathium and Dimmu Borgir go goth on stunning Cemetery Skyline debut album

Not content with mastering melodeath Mikael Stanne is leading a goth pop revolution with Cemetery Skyline's debut, Nordic Gothic

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Fred Durst sues Universal Music over alleged unpaid royalties amounting to more than $200 million

The Limp Bizkit frontman filed the suit at federal court in Los Angeles

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